Young, Julie

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    Borders for profit: transnational social exclusion and the production of the NAFTA border
    (Inderscience, 2019) Gingrich, Luann G.; Young, Julie E. E.
    The focus of this paper is the production of the 'North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)' border that defines a trans/national social field and directs the day-to-day lives of migrant women who organise their livelihoods around the Mexico-Guatemala border. We document and investigate emerging transnational spaces and practices of social exclusion and symbolic violence (Bourdieu) that boost domestic economic interests, externalise social responsibility, privatise social risk, and reinforce national boundaries. We argue that policies and practices in this transnational social field are directed by market logic and that, accordingly, trade agreements and migration management regimes organise place and space to make the most of global inequalities through the simultaneous facilitation and restriction of mobility. Crucially, the coordinated ambivalent control of borders in this transnational marketised social field produces an entrepreneurial context that makes possible a range of profits through the selective symbolic dispossession of nation-states, nationalities, and migrant bodies: economic, political, and social.
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    Introduction: dis/placing the borders of North America
    (Inderscience, 2019) Young, Julie E. E.; Reynolds, Johanna; Nyers, Peter
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    #StayHomeSaveLives: essentializing entry and Canada's biopolitical COVID borders
    (Taylor & Francis, 2022) Chaulagain, Rabindra; Nasser, Wael M.; Young, Julie E. E.
    The COVID-19 pandemic ushered in a systematic closure of national borders at a global scale, and a subsequent but selective reopening under the guise of “essential” entry and labor. We examine the Government of Canada’s Twitter messaging around border closures and exceptions, using narrative and textual analysis to interrogate how the government has constructed essential and non-essential entry and work in support of national needs including critical infrastructure that sustains the Canadian economy and population. The Canadian government deployed the essentialization process as a biopolitical mechanism to access the labor pool that already existed within Canada and that was readily available beyond the border. Rather than complete closure, the Canadian border had to be “elastic” allowing the entry and making use of the labor of international students, temporary foreign workers, and people with precarious status to sustain national life. We argue that studying the digital spaces of migration management will remain key in any post-pandemic world.